I became newly worried about the state of democracy when, a few years ago, my mother was elected president of her neighborhood garden club.
Social Sciences
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In early May The Guardian reported on a survey that explored the thoughts and feelings of 380 climate scientists. It was not uplifting. The pull quotes tell a story of anguish. "Sometimes it is almost impossible not to feel ...
Environment
Jun 4, 2024
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A multi-institutional team of plant specialists, microbiologists and paleontologists in the Czech Republic and the University of Minnesota, in the U.S., has found evidence of a hot spring oasis during the last ice age in ...
Delhi is reeling from the most extreme heat wave India has ever seen. While the record-breaking maximum recorded temperature of 52.9°C has been called into question by India's Meteorological Department, it's entirely possible. ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 1, 2024
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Solar Radiation Modification (SRM) is a suite of possible technologies to counteract global warming by reflecting incoming solar radiation.
Earth Sciences
Jun 1, 2024
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Skoltech scientists and their Chinese colleagues have determined the conditions that enable the existence of a very peculiar ion. Dubbed aquodiium, it can be conceptualized as an ordinary neutral molecule of water with two ...
Planetary Sciences
May 31, 2024
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An international team of political scientists, data scientists, economists and environmental scientists has found, via study of satellite data, that approximately 1.18 billion people across the globe are energy-poor—viewed ...
Space, the saying goes, is hard. And the farther humans go, the harder it can get.
Space Exploration
May 31, 2024
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An international team of astronomers today announced the discovery of the two earliest and most distant galaxies ever seen, dating back to only 300 million years after the Big Bang. These results, using NASA's James Webb ...
Astronomy
May 30, 2024
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National forecasting centers like the Met Office could apply the same tools used for weather forecasting to quantify how human behavior is aggravating major events like floods, heat waves and storms, climate scientists at ...
Environment
May 30, 2024
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